By higher priority did you mean lower bridge priority or higher bridge priority?
On 10 January 2014 14:14, Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a followup on this problem ... I was on site, and it turns out the > desktop switch indeed tried to take over as root bridge of the STP. > Anyway, even when filtering the BPDUs on the incoming port, the main > switch still ceased doing any network forwarding, not sure what was > going on exactly. Anyway, replacing the switch with an identical one > (apart from not knowing what's configured on it) fixed the problem for > whatever reason. Weird thing about the root bridge is, the existing main > switch already used the higher priority, so even considering lower MAC > address, the main switch should have remained being the root bridge, as > the desktop switch was elected with default priority ... > We will look into the config of the desktop switch in our lab, possibly > finding out what is wrong here ... for now the customer site is at least > working as intended ... > > Tnx to all who replied with their thoughts and ideas ... > > -garry > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
